Both Mr Loh and Mr Tan have engaged Zhong to host getais over the
next few weeks and both said they will stand by him.

'As long as he can come and perform for us, we would still want him
to be our compere,' Mr Loh said.

Zhong, who married twice, has three daughters aged between 10 and
23.

His wife, who spoke to Lianhe Zaobao, said her husband called her
to say he had been taken to a drug rehabilitation centre.

'He said he did not take drugs. He told me someone could have
spiked his food or drinks and he had no idea what happened,' she
said.

She claimed her husband's drink had been spiked once before,
several years ago.

'I told him not to accept drinks or food from strangers, but he
said he could not refuse because being in the entertainment line,
he could not afford to be rude,' she said.
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'He said he did not take drugs. He told me someone could have
spiked his food or drinks and he had no idea what happened.'
- WIFE OF PART-TIME ACTOR ZHONG YAONAN

'He's a very professional compere. He's very loyal. Once he says he
will host a certain show, he will keep his word even if other
people offer him more money to do otherwise.'
GETAI ORGANISER TAN CHEW LEE

'As long as he can come and perform for us, we would still want him
to be our compere.'
GETAI ORGANISER PETER LOH

ST, Aug 7, 2006
Ah Nan tested positive for drugs
Urine sample sent for confirmation, results should be out in two
weeks' time

By MEDIA REPORTER, Hazel Yong

ACTOR and getai singer-compere Zhong Yaonan may be released from
Sembawang Drug Rehabilitation Centre on Friday, a Central Narcotics
Bureau (CNB) spokesman said yesterday.

The spokesman said that Zhong, 45, had tested positive for
controlled drugs amphetamine and benzodiazepine after his arrest
last Thursday night.

Amphetamine is the name of a broad category of drugs including
Ecstasy and Ice, while benzodiazepine drugs include Erimin-5.

His urine sample has been sent to the Health Sciences Authority for
confirmation and the report should be ready in about two weeks'
time.

If he is found guilty of consuming drugs, he will be charged and
will have to undergo at least a six-month rehabilitation programme,
said the spokesman.

Zhong, more popularly known as Ah Nan, shot to fame playing a loan
shark in Jack Neo's movie Money No Enough in 1998. Before entering
showbiz, he worked in several jobs including as a cook and car
mechanic.

He was one of 124 suspected drug offenders nabbed in a 24-hour CNB
operation.

He was arrested at about 11pm after he hosted a Seventh Month
Festival getai (concert) at Block 536, Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10.

He was led away by officers after the crowd had dispersed. He was
the only performer at the getai to be arrested.

Sun Qiang, 36, who was hosting the getai with Ah Nan that night,
said yesterday: 'His reaction during our banter seemed a tad slower
than usual but I didn't think much of it.'

Zhong's wife said yesterday that her three daughters, aged 14, 11
and 10, were very upset about the arrest and that the youngest one
had been crying.

'I have to tell her to be good and be quiet like my two other
daughters,' said the wife, who did not want to be named. 'She would
then go and pray to the Goddess of Mercy figurine we have at home
for his safe return.'

The close-knit getai circuit has been abuzz with news of the
arrest.

Chan Ah Eng, a former Hokkien opera troupe performer, told Life!
yesterday: 'I have known him for over a decade and I have never
once heard or saw him taking any illicit drugs.'

Chan, 63, is the mother of popular getai duo the Ming Zhu
Sisters.

Choo Leng Leng, the elder of the Ming Zhu Sisters, said that female
performers have cried while discussing the arrest.

'Ah Nan looks like a gangster but he has a heart of gold,' she
said, adding that she and fellow getai performer Liu Lingling 'both
lost our appetites at supper yesterday and cried because we were so
worried about him'.

Zhong's arrest follows the much-publicised death of getai star Chen
Jinlang on July 25, the first day of the lunar seventh month, or
what some Chinese regard as the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Chen, 45, died after a battle with cancer, and his family held an
eight-day wake attended by many getai performers.

Zhong and Chen were god-brothers, and the latter's family had given
Zhong nine of the late singer's flamboyant jackets as a
keepsake.

At Thursday's getai concert before his arrest, Zhong had donned the
jackets.

Tan Chew Lee, a getai organiser and Chen's elder brother, said that
he had engaged Zhang to perform as a host and singer for two getai
shows, on Aug 9 and 12 respectively.

He said yesterday that he has found a replacement host in Huang
Bihua, who is not as well-known as Zhong, for the Aug 9 event. He
hopes Zhong would be released in time for the second show.

'There are few comedic singer-hosts as popular as Jinlang and Ah
Nan in Singapore,' he said.

'It is really the industry's loss now that one has died and the
other is remanded.'

Yesterday i went to balestier point the tattoo shop, the tattoo
artist show me his photo of his tattoos... si bei nice ... infront
of the chest is "fa" meaning strike rich i think, then below it, on
the tummy, tattoo "qian gou yong" at the sides of his arms also got
some wing type animal, that artist good friend with this guy...
yesterday saw him on photo, today see him on news.

Not surprised at all. See his fark face also know what type of
friends he mix with lah. So many tattoos on his body also. Are you
guys aware that if you ‘put’ the wrong type of tattoo pictures on
your body, instead of seeing it as a kind of body arts, those
tattoos ( evil ) can turn you and your mind into something
else?

Not surprised at all. See his fark face
also know what type of friends he mix with lah. So many tattoos on
his body also. Are you guys aware that if you 'put' the wrong type
of tattoo pictures on your body, instead of seeing it as a kind of
body arts, those tattoos ( evil ) can turn you and your mind into
something else?

if i put guang gong on my back i will be very upright person?
then put guang yin become very mercyful?

Not surprised at all. See his fark face
also know what type of friends he mix with lah. So many tattoos on
his body also. Are you guys aware that if you 'put' the wrong type
of tattoo pictures on your body, instead of seeing it as a kind of
body arts, those tattoos ( evil ) can turn you and your mind into
something else?

One of my former army reservist friend have
many of this tattoo of god/demi god on his body. End up something
hapened to him.......cannot anyhow put one you know!

i heard a few stories regarding these kind of things b4..
eg. last time got one guy tattoo guan yin behind his back, after
tat he go add in one more mickey mouse. come out of the tattoo shop
immediately knock down by a car..

don't need to wait. just go to the polytechnic's students service centre ask them to issue a document to prove that you will be their student from April 2015 until 2018... then use that letter to re-defer.